Queensland police service sacks First Nations advisory group after members refuse to sign gag clause

QPS said the body, comprising elders and community leaders, ‘was not meeting the purpose and original intent of the group’

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The Queensland Police Service has sacked a formal advisory group of First Nations community leaders and elders, six weeks after they refused to sign a gag clause that they say could have silenced ongoing criticism.

Members of the QPS First Nations Advisory group have publicly and privately raised concerns that the police leadership had stalled on cultural reform promised in the aftermath of a 2022 inquiry.

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